Setting
Characters
Conflict
Rising Action
Which of the four ?
100
"When it starts we're in a hotel room, the two of us curled up on a double bed. It's a two-star kind of place: cracks in the walls, curtains covered in faded daisies, the clinging smell of camphor attaching itself after the first few minutes of your stay.
What is a cheap hotel room?
100
"Jevontae stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped general quarter of the room.
Who is Jevontae?
100
"Being assigned to The Head for eight hours was the worst security shift you could pull at the museum.
What is having to work the worst security shift?
100
"We must make this work," he said. "Or my friends and students will laugh at me
What is trying to solve their problem?
100
"The swell was gently lifting and lowering the boat. My breathing grew slower, falling into step with the creaking of the hull, until I could no longer tell the difference between the faint rhythmic motion of the cabin and the sensation of filling and emptying my lungs."
What is setting?
200
"Once upon a time, in a deep dark wood, in a teeny tiny cottage with a straw roof, lived a big rat. His name was Claude."
What is a cottage?
200
There once was a rabbit who loved to dance
What is a rabbit?
200
True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them
What is the narrator is sick?
200
Now, it so happened that outside the village, in a great damp swamp, lived an old basket-maker who was famed for the quality of his work. One day the old basket-maker heard a knock on his door. When he opened it, the ugly girl stood there. In her hand, she held six gold coins. 'I want you to make me a husband,' she said.
What is she went to the basket maker and told her to get her a husband?
200
A tall, florescent green lizard stood admiring his shimmering form in the mirror. Running his bulbous fingers through is wild, blue hair he popped himself into a dance pose he was sure would get the audience screaming. He was born to be a rockstar-- with one teensy problem. The only thing making people scream was his awful singing. When Lizard (he pronounced is Liz- arggh, kind of like a pirate), opened his mouth, the noise that came out had people screaming for him to stop. If he was going to be the rockstar he knew he was born to be, he needed to learn how to sing.
What is exposition?
300
We're playing Scrabble. That's how bad it is. I'm 42 years old, it's a blistering hot Sunday afternoon and all I can think of to do with my life is to play Scrabble.
What is hot Sunday afternoon?
300
Jeremy lived out on Coney Island with his mother, father, and sister Cleo. Who is the main character?
Who is Jeremy?
300
But that seemed such a long time ago now. A lot can change in just a few years - a lot of heartache can change a person and drive a wedge through the strongest ties, break even the deepest love. Three years to the day and they had returned, though this time not for the beachside marriages the island was famous for but for one of its equally popular quickie divorces.
What is they were unhappily married?
300
In Rocky IV (1985), our old friend Rocky Balboa agrees to train his buddy Apollo Creed in an exhibition boxing match against an enormously strong Russian named Ivan Drago. Creed treats the fight as a joke, but Drago is a trained boxing machine and winds up killing Creed in the ring. As a matter of pride, Rocky decides to travel all the way to Russia to fight Drago on Christmas Day. First off, Rocky's wife doesn't want him to go. Then, he must train with two guys in the cold, harsh Russian winter without the proper equipment, while Drago has a team of trainers and the best possible facilities available. Drago also uses steroids.
What is having decides to go to Russia to fight , or having to train in the cold, or Drago using streroids or having no equipment
300
Of course, it didn't have to end like this. He could call Regan on her mobile at any time and agree that: "Yes, we have to talk". That was the sensible option, the civil thing to do
What is conflict?
400
Frank sat low in the front seat with his collar turned up against the evening chill. A police car passed with its lights turned off and he sank into the darkness, remembering all those other times he'd parked outside houses just like this one, awaiting that one false move, that single, fatal lack of discretion. What are both of the elements of the setting?
What is night time , outside of a house?
400
Dad?" she says. "I swear, I can't remember the words to my own songs." She is sixty-two and sitting on the edge of the couch, her old acoustic guitar perched on her knee. Her husband of forty-seven years walks into the living room from the kitchen. "What's that, Mom?" he says. For decades, ever since they had their third child together, he has called her Mom and she has called him Dad.
What is husband and wife?
400
"How was your day?" he asked. "Terrible." "You must try to get along with Ma." "I do try. I really do. But your mother hates me." "How many students did you tutor today? "Only about five, but it felt like a hundred." "The students are poor, and yet their parents pay you very well." "Yes, I know. But they use free chat to criticize me." "You could do with a little self-criticism." "What do you mean?"
What is he is having a hard time teaching in a new place?
400
“If you shouldn’t be defendin’ him, then why are you doin’ it?” “For a number of reasons,” said Atticus. “The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” […] “Atticus, are we going to win it?” “No, honey.” “Then why-” “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,” Atticus said.
What is because of injustice in the court system?
400
"Is the doctor at home?" "His honour's asleep," whispered the cook into her sleeve, as though afraid of waking her master. "He's only just got home from his fever patients, and gave orders he was not to be waked." But Nellie scarcely heard the cook. Thrusting her aside, she rushed headlong into the doctor's house. Running through some dark and stuffy rooms, upsetting two or three chairs, she at last reached the doctor's bedroom. Stepan Lukitch was lying on his bed, dressed, but without his coat, and with pouting lips was breathing into his open hand. A little night-light glimmered faintly beside him. Without uttering a word Nellie sat down and began to cry. She wept bitterly, shaking all over. "My husband is ill!" she sobbed out. Stepan Lukitch was silent. He slowly sat up, propped his head on his hand, and looked at his visitor with fixed, sleepy eyes. "My husband is ill!" Nellie continued, restraining her sobs. "For mercy's sake come quickly. Make haste. . . . Make haste!" "Eh?" growled the doctor, blowing into his hand. "Come! Come this very minute! Or . . . it's terrible to think! For mercy's sake!" And pale, exhausted Nellie, gasping and swallowing her tears, began describing to the doctor her husband's illness, her unutterable terror. Her sufferings would have touched the heart of a stone, but the doctor looked at her, blew into his open hand, and -- not a movement. "I'll come to-morrow!" he muttered. "That's impossible!" cried Nellie. "I know my husband has typhus! At once . . . this very minute you are needed!"
What is rising action?
500
"Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no horizon, only a line of white cloud."
What is la caldera?
500
My grandmother used to tell me home is where the heart is. I did not understand what she meant by that until one stormy night when
What is the narrator?
500
One by one, the village girls married the local lads, and up the path to the church they'd prance, smiling all the way. At the weddings, the ugly girl always stood at the back of the church, smelling slightly of brine. The village women gossiped about the ugly girl. They wondered what she did with the money she earnt. The ugly girl never bought a new frock, never made repairs to the house, and never drank in the village tavern.
What is the ugly girl is lonely or doesn't have a husband.
500
One day while he was browsing through cds at the record store, Lizarggh overheard some rockers talking about a secret grotto at the top of Rockopolis Mountain. Legend says that anyone who drinks from the dark pool in the grotto instantly gains a voice as smooth and deep as its waters. Lizzarggh knew what he had to do. He laced up his combat boots, slipped a power bar in his satchel, and started climbing. After hours of hacking his way through brush and struggling over boulders, the tip of the grotto peaked above the next hill. With a rush of renewed energy, Lizzargh took off, bounding over rocks until they felt like they were shaking loose under the impact of his feet
What is going to the top of the mountain, struggling over the boulders and boulders shaking loose?
500
"Long ago, in a faraway place, there was a land filled with wonder. In this fantastic place there was a little girl. She was very special, for she had a magic
What is exposition?
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